“There are certain things that must be done for the sake of history.” That was Manjari Chaturvedi’s motivation for curating the Qawwali Photo Project, an exhibition of photographs featuring the lives ...
Have you ever wondered how qawwali transcended years of cultural appropriation and still finds relevance in mainstream art and cinema? In another session, founder of South Asian Alliance for ...
‘Sufisaints bring people together. And so do the musicians and singers who sing Qawwali, an Indian localised form of Sufimusic,’ said Haji Mohammed Idris of the Qutbi Brothers, one of India’s most ...
Before Sahir Ludhianvi used it as inspiration, the original poem was penned by Sufi poet Ameer Bakhsh Sabri and composed by ...
Pakistan is remembering today the legendary qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on his 70th birth anniversary. Known as the king of qawwali, the maestro was born in Faisalabad on October 13 1948 into ...
Qawwali has historically been upheld by gharanas that boast of an affinity with the genre that dates back to the time of Amir Khusrow. However, changing trends of the music industry in recent times ...
The Lahore Arts Council Alhamra reaffirmed its commitment to preserving Pakistan’s spiritual and cultural heritage by hosting ...
Trending Desk March 1, 2022 2:12 PM IST One such hilarious video is going viral on social media, showing how a group of artists kept their cool even after the stage broke down in the middle of their ...
The ideal and perfect man - Mr Right, if you may - seems to be turning into something of a myth. Or so this new video by comedy collective AIB will have you believe. The video, incidentally created ...